What's this!? No Javascript runtime, no NPM package dependencies. Can software really be built without it?
I jest of course. This is really cool and nice to see something like this, make the front page of HN for once!
I jest of course. This is really cool and nice to see something like this, make the front page of HN for once!
Trade offs, as usual.
And having "build cruft" is a feature for most non web devs. It would be trivial to set up a separate repo with all the build tools and configuration, but we want it nearby.
There's no tradeoffs here, IMO.
Genuine question: what development toolchain lets you make a repo _doesn't_ have a bunch of files for the build process? GP specifically mentioned JavaScript, which I feel has an above-average amount of tooling in projects due to preprocessing the code in various ways being super common.